Whistleblower Exposes US Torture & Murder in Iraq by WILLIAM DOTINGA (COURTHOUSE NEWS)

(Sep 19, 2012) An Iraq war veteran claims in court that his superiors drugged and kidnapped him to keep him from telling the press about Abu Ghraib prison abuses - and that Saddam Hussein's still-missing WMDs were made in the U.S.A.

Those are just two of the disturbing claims Frank Ford makes in a federal complaint, which mirrors a lawsuit he filed earlier this year in Sacramento Superior Court. His attorney said the state complaint will be dismissed soon, in favor of the federal case.

In the federal complaint, Ford accuses the defendants -- including the California Army National Guard, the United States of America and fellow soldiers Victor Artiga, Merle Madera, Timothy Ryan and Thomas Pappas -- of violating the Constitution, the Whistleblower Protection Act, and of torture, false imprisonment and medical malpractice.

Ford claims he served with the 203rd Military Intelligence Battalion, through the California Army National Guard, and went to Iraq as a counterintelligence noncommissioned officer in 2003.